I’m paying € 1.910,00 for the course, with five days of classroom instruction and the rest is via distance learning, which is fine. Didn’t start flying to save money anyway :-)
Orbit Groundschool is a reseller of the Bristol Groundschool products.
The classroom sessions are obligatory, but not necessary IMO. Most of the time is spend on practicing exams; which you can do at home as well.
The exams are rediculous expensive in NL, at 144EUR per exam.
It’s true that you can do the training + exams a lot cheaper abroad.
But it needs travel + overnight stays, so probably not worth the hassle.
Orbit Groundshool has a good reputation, and their (self-claimed) passing rate is almost 100%.
Hello everyone, I have just signed up.
EIR / CBIR It requires 80 hours of study with 8 hours in the classroom (2 days in Littlehampton). The cost is £495, which includes the time in the classroom and the colour printed notes. If you take your flying training with Rate One Aviation and do their whole course, your fees will be discounted by them.
good to see al the people getting into that !
I started a theory JAA IR course with Mermoz in 2011, finished my theory in 2014 and now working on my practical (as i said somewhere else, it’s taking me forever…)
For reference the cost for the theory was about 2200EUR (for 40h classroom out of 400h total)
I also took a fey subscriptions to easy-atpl for theory exam training.
My club is ATO/FTO and has a CB-IR course since December it seems.
I’ll have to discuss with my IRI whether i can move to CB-IR although i’m not sure it will change anything to the planning issues.
For reference the cost for the theory was about 2200EUR (for 40h classroom
You joking? 55€/h for a classroom course? Were you the only student in the classroom?
not even close… we were maybe 3 or 4 IRs about the same CPLs and the rest were ATPLs (doing both 2 full weeks)
but as you sounded so appalled i dug in my mail.
Actual total price was 1810 EUR including :
– books (25% off on books)
– distance learning platform access for 18 months (about 1k EUR without VAT)
– 40h on site course (about 0.5k EUR)
Well, sounds like they made a whole lot of money from that one!
But I know… it’s a captive market…
I just learned that Lund University in Sweden offers ATPL theory as a university programme. That means, free of charge for EU students, but only in Swedish I guess.
I’m currently in the middle of it.
Have passed 3 exams and failed Instruments. I have appealed the fail as one of the failed questions was regarding a 737 EFIS
Still need met, radio nav and gen nav.
aviationexam is highly recommended.
